Employee Involvement Programs
Employee involvement programs seek to motivate employees by
increasing their responsibilities or getting them more involved in
decision-making processes. There are several types of employee involvement
programs; the more basic programs include job enlargement,
job rotation, and teamwork. More ambitious programs include
open-book management and worker empowerment.
Job Enlargement. Job enlargement is a direct way to increase job
responsibility. It involves expanding a position and giving an employee
a greater variety of tasks.
Job Rotation. A job rotation program periodically reassigns employees
to new positions. In addition to increasing employees’ involvement
in the firm and adjusting their responsibilities, job rotation can also
improve employees’ skill sets, thereby increasing their job security. In
addition, it can also relieve the boredom in the workplace associated
with doing the same job over a long period of time.
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Teamwork. This program attempts to increase motivation by putting
individuals with different positions onto a team and setting them the
task of achieving a specific goal. Teamwork serves to increase an employee’s
responsibilities and involvement in the firm. The best types of
teams are self-directed. This provides the team with the authority to
make decisions regarding planning, accomplishing, and evaluating the
task they are working on. For more on this topic of teamwork, see
Chapter 3, “Leadership and Team Building.”
Open-Book Management. Open-book management is a challenging,
but direct way of increasing employee involvement and responsibility.
It involves allowing employees to see how their job performance
affects key performance indicators important to the firm. In order to
institute this program a firm needs to make key indicators available to
employees and educate them on how to interpret key performance
measures. Employees also need to be empowered to make decisions related
to their positions and training and be given the opportunity to
see how these decisions affect the rest of the firm. Open-book management
also necessitates an adequate compensation program whereby
compensation is tied to performance.
Worker Empowerment. Worker empowerment attempts to increase
employee job responsibility as well as employee involvement. It
does this by giving employees more authority and involving them in
the decision-making process. Employees who are empowered can often
make better and more informed decisions than can a manager who
is not directly involved in the process. Participative management is
similar to worker empowerment. Although it does not provide employees
with direct decision-making power, it encourages managers to
consult closely with workers before making decisions. Another type of
participatory management is management by objective. This approach
allows employees to set their own goals and provides them with the
freedom to decide how they can best achieve these goals.
Employee Involvement Programs
Employee involvement programs seek to motivate employees by
increasing their responsibilities or getting them more involved in
decision-making processes. There are several types of employee involvement
programs; the more basic programs include job enlargement,
job rotation, and teamwork. More ambitious programs include
open-book management and worker empowerment.
Job Enlargement. Job enlargement is a direct way to increase job
responsibility. It involves expanding a position and giving an employee
a greater variety of tasks.
Job Rotation. A job rotation program periodically reassigns employees
to new positions. In addition to increasing employees’ involvement
in the firm and adjusting their responsibilities, job rotation can also
improve employees’ skill sets, thereby increasing their job security. In
addition, it can also relieve the boredom in the workplace associated
with doing the same job over a long period of time.
Organizational Behavior 27
TLFeBOOK
Teamwork. This program attempts to increase motivation by putting
individuals with different positions onto a team and setting them the
task of achieving a specific goal. Teamwork serves to increase an employee’s
responsibilities and involvement in the firm. The best types of
teams are self-directed. This provides the team with the authority to
make decisions regarding planning, accomplishing, and evaluating the
task they are working on. For more on this topic of teamwork, see
Chapter 3, “Leadership and Team Building.”
Open-Book Management. Open-book management is a challenging,
but direct way of increasing employee involvement and responsibility.
It involves allowing employees to see how their job performance
affects key performance indicators important to the firm. In order to
institute this program a firm needs to make key indicators available to
employees and educate them on how to interpret key performance
measures. Employees also need to be empowered to make decisions related
to their positions and training and be given the opportunity to
see how these decisions affect the rest of the firm. Open-book management
also necessitates an adequate compensation program whereby
compensation is tied to performance.
Worker Empowerment. Worker empowerment attempts to increase
employee job responsibility as well as employee involvement. It
does this by giving employees more authority and involving them in
the decision-making process. Employees who are empowered can often
make better and more informed decisions than can a manager who
is not directly involved in the process. Participative management is
similar to worker empowerment. Although it does not provide employees
with direct decision-making power, it encourages managers to
consult closely with workers before making decisions. Another type of
participatory management is management by objective. This approach
allows employees to set their own goals and provides them with the
freedom to decide how they can best achieve these goals.
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